Better E-mail field parsing (46)

E-mail fields are rarely getting used for valid email adresses, so why not extent their functionality? They could be used for web adresses, for instance. Kareha / wakaba would only have to check if it's a somehow semantically correct adress and then make it a simple link (instead of a mailto: link) - and perhaps automatically add a http:// in front if that's missing.

The option to just do away with the email field entirely (maybe just have a "sage/don't bump" checkbox instead a la Ochiba) would be nice. I keep having to tell n00bs that, despite what it says, it's a bad idea to actually put their email address in there...

Just because the Japanese have it in their scripts doesn't mean you have to. :P

If someone actually wants to leave an email address it's easy enough to include it in their post or use it as their username.

The other thing is ID:Heaven, which is fun if you want to be 'properly' anonymous. If you just have that triggered by a 'sage' checkbox, anyone playing in the shadows can't bump a topic... it might be annoying. Thoughts?

The information put into the E-mail field does not neccessarily have to result into a mailto: anchor, that's what we are discussin here. We are also discussing here how to properly expand the functionality of an information field beyond the comment field instead of deciding how to best cripple existing functions.

>>7: Oh, nifty, so my IP address is being posted with each post I make? So I can't post anonymously; people can match that post's ID to the ID of one of my normal posts? This feature is evil and must be slain.

ID codes are rotated each day, so you can only match the during one day. ID:Heaven is what you get if you enter an E-mail address. This can be disabled or enabled as you see fit. All of this is a bit strange, and is emulation of the 0ch behaviour.

In seeing Shii's more recent "vBulletin" lookalike job with shiistyle, removing the email field I have to strongly dislike it. Even though the email field is somewhat useless except for people having a good o' sage, myself being somewhat geriatric about think the field should stay, even if it isn't used for its desired purpose. It's something that isn't being abused.

>Feel free to make some sort of logical point in support of the e-mail field. Any day now.

It's tradition! The Japanese boards have it, so it must be logical and right!! You must hate Japanese people and want to put them all in camps again if you don't like the email field!!! Why, it wouldn't be in the nebulous mythical chan spirit which we can nevereverever deviate from to not have an email field!!!!

Sometimes it is better to do things because of tradition and how a community is used to doing things a certain way. No doubt that young minds have questioned their elders as to why their culture does such redundant things. Sometimes "practically" has to take a back seat.

> All content of a message should go into the actual post. Please explain how hiding the content somewhere else makes the software better.

Software for communication is good if it allows communication. You want to limit communication, and that's fine, you favor stuff like word filters and what not, but this is not about your personal restriction preferences.

With a normal post, parts get cut off when they are too long. So you have to click somewhere if you want to read the whole post and if you don't do that then the rest of the post is hidden.

This is linked to design aspects, as well as the current email is linked to functional aspects of these forum software types. And I think it's better to think about ways to expand given possibilities than to restrict them as long as there is no actual abuse originating from them. It's hard enough to come up with new, useful features for ways of communication, and an input field that's already there and is hardly used for the email purpose is a good candidate to try other things with it, so you don't have to add more and more dropdown menus, checkboxes and radio buttons as you add features.

The http:// stuff was one idea (and could still be done together with sage/age recognition), another could be an AA feature like on world2ch: You put aa in your email and the post automatically gets encoded to S_JIS, no matter what encoding the rest of the board has.

This is also a very silly stance. Is your name part of the "actual post" or not? Is it the date? If yes, why does the same not go for the information in the email field? Is it because you have to hover over it to see its content?